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Date and time of last data update: Tuesday October 04 2022 08:45 CDT

Stock market and bitcoin

symbol Min Max Initial Last
SP500 2237.400 4796.56 3257.850 3678.43
SP600 595.670 1466.02 1020.830 1093.07
VIX 12.100 82.69 12.470 31.62
BTC-USD 4970.788 67566.83 7200.174 20079.21

Note: The S&P 600 index is S&P’s “small-cap” index, containing firms with market capitalizations roughly between $1 billion and $4 billion.

Foreign Exchange

symbol Min Max Initial Last
JPUS 102.5200 144.7100 108.4300 144.7100
USEU 0.9616 1.2295 1.1166 0.9783
USUK 1.0703 1.4188 1.3128 1.1134

Interest rates

symbol Min Max Initial Last
3-month -0.05 3.30 1.51 3.22
1-year 0.04 4.17 1.56 4.05
5-year 0.19 4.21 1.67 4.06
10-year 0.52 3.97 1.88 3.83

Data sources and disclaimer

Data sources

All data was retrieved using R’s tidyquant package. The underlying data sources were:

Disclaimer

This site was created for educational purposes. There is no warranty as to the accuracy or timeliness of the data. If you’re tempted to base trading decisions on this data, you should

  1. Take several slow, deep breaths
  2. Do your own independent research
  3. Take an investments course, or at least read an investments book — Bodie, Kane, and Marcus is excellent

Purpose

This is a simple document. I wrote it to provide a focal point for class discussions, focusing on information that I hope will be salient for students. Comments are welcome. It is licensed under the MIT License and available on Github

– Robert McDonald, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University